The Safavid Dynasty

FURTHER READING

Emma Loosley, ‘Messiah and Mahdi: Caucasian Christians and the Construction of Safavid Isfahan’ (East & West Publishing, London, 2009)

Rudi Matthee, ‘The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900’ (Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2005)

Saeid Khaghani, ‘Islamic Architecture in Iran: Poststructural Theory and the Architectural History of Iranian Mosques’ (I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2012)

Aptin Khanbaghi, ‘The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran’ (I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2006)

Eleanor G. Sims, with Boris I. Marshak & Ernst J. Grube, ‘Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources’ (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2002)

Alice Taylor, ‘Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia’ (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995)

A. J. Newman, ‘Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire’ (London: I. B. Tauris Ltd, 2008)

C. Melville (ed.), ‘Safavid Persia’ (London: I. B. Tauris Ltd, 1996)

K. Rizvi, ‘The Safavid Dynastic Shrine’ (London: I. B. Tauris Ltd, 2011)

Sussan Babaie, ‘Isfahan and Its Palaces’ (Edinburgh: EUP, 2008)

R. W. Ferrier, ‘A Journey to Persia: Jean Chardin’s Portrait of a Seventeenth-century Empire’ (London: I. B. Tauris Ltd, 1996)

S. Quinn, ‘Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah Abbas’ (Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Press, 2000)

S. Canby, ‘The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501–1722’ (London: British Museum Press, 2003)